What lovely weather for a rant together with you..

Picture the scene. It's a brisk winter morning and the skies are grey overhead. I'm sat here cosied up under a fleece blanket, casually scrolling through facebook. Suddenly I hear my family excitedly chattering so I heave myself up and go into the next room to find them with their faces pressed up against the window. They turn to me then point out of the window, speechless. I peer out, squinting before realising with a jolt that it's snowing. We all stare in stunned silence as the delicate flakes gently fall, slowly settling to create an ethereal wonderland. We then all prise ourselves off the pane, chorus "wow, snow!", and then wonder back to whatever it was we were doing- because after all, it is just snow .

I arrived back on facebook only to be bombarded with a sea of text that grew and grew each second I looked at it. "OMG SNOW", "hey guys look- snow", "snoooooow ahahahahaha". Do these people think I live in a hole, and don't have a window to look out of myself? The human race has a complete infatuation with stating the blindingly obvious. Repetedly. On the hottest day of the year, every other statement you hear is "hot today, isn't it?". Well no actually I was rather cold but now that you've cleverly pointed it out to me, gee it sure is hot today isn't it?

Now I'm well and truly into this rant, I may as well continue- why do British people ever complain? In the summer as the thermometers threaten to topple over the twenty degrees mark, all you hear is whining, moaning, and occasional screams of "global warming is coming! The end is nigh!". I'm very sorry that your ice cream has started to melt a bit, but in Egypt it's over fifty degrees right now and their faces are melting. It's the same in winter. The moment the first flake of snow touches the ground people start panic buying for the bare essentials; tinned food, water and marshmallows. My god, an inch of snow? I may never see the grass again. Over in Canada, their sneezes freeze in midair. 

Just stop complaining and you might start to see the amazing weather we have. Yes it's unpredictable, but that's the fun of living here- you get to experience all climates in small scale. I think Britain is fantastic and we shouldn't criticise its choices. Just don't get over enthusiastic or you'll turn into one of those people who say "hey look, it's raining! I love the rain," from under their umbrella while you're furiously dripping next to them.

Lots of love, stay freaky! xx